Rapper
Sole, originally from the Northeast, but now more associated with the West Coast, has had an interesting career in hip hop.
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posted by broadway bill
on Mar 20, 2013 -
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Copyright Criminals , the 2009 PBS Documentary, discusses the complex artistic and legal history of sampling in music, featuring interviews with both the samplers (Chuck D, De La Soul, Shock G, El-P, DJ Qbert) and the sampled (George Clinton and Clyde Stubblefield).
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posted by chrchr
on Oct 1, 2012 -
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"Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby." Last night, internet-famous oddball rapper and human meme
Lil B gave a 90-minute lecture at NYU to a sold-out crowd. Speaking completely off the cuff, he touched upon radical positivity, empathy, how ant colonies are like human communities, and the dangers of hydraulic fracking, among many other things.
Transcript and recording here. Pitchfork.tv will
air the full video tomorrow. Nitsuh Abebe
writes about what makes Lil B so great, and why it's hard to deal with some of his fans.
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posted by naju
on Apr 12, 2012 -
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David Cohn, AKA Serengeti , has been described as "the quirkiest, deepest rapper", and "a writer who happens to rap". He has put out several albums but has encountered virtually no commercial success whatsoever, despite some raw works on the topics of
absentee fathers,
heroin, and a
fictitious UFC fighter.
Chief among his creations is alter-ego Kenny Dennis, with origins in what has become his most famous track, "
Dennehy". Kenny is a Chicago sports superfan with a mustache "the size of Mike Ditka's forehead" who loves actor
Brian Dennehy, O'Douls, brats, and chops, 'sconsin, the Sears Tower, and his wife
Jules, and who
passionately defends Steve Bartman.
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posted by rollbiz
on Apr 11, 2012 -
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In the tradition of Marcus Aurelius and Montaigne, Ghostface Killah (a.k.a. Pretty Toney) has set down his thoughts
on living.
(audio nsfw) (previously)
posted by Trurl
on Nov 19, 2011 -
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"
Hackers of the world are uniting and taking direct action against our common oppressors - the government, corporations, police, and militaries of the world" says LulzSec
(previously) in their latest release,
Chinga La Migra. "
We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 (previously) and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona."
#antisec is a new track from nerdcore rapper
ytcracker (previously)
posted by finite
on Jun 23, 2011 -
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Seventeen years ago, Queensbridge prodigy Nas put out
arguably the greatest hip hop album of all time. Today, Detroit lyricist Elzhi releases a loving and skillful tribute to the album with re-recorded live beats:
Elmatic.
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posted by the mad poster!
on May 10, 2011 -
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